UPDATE: Apparently 11.10 is now fine with the apps and games that the Rage drivers broke, so you’d want to update to the final release. Some people’s Rage turned blue, so those people should just use the atioglxx.dll from the Rage driver that works best for them (put it in Rage’s game folder): 11.10p v1, 11.10p v2, 11.10p v3.

I’m seeing reports of people saying that the Rage drivers broke all other OpenGL applications or games. No problem, there are two ways to quickly fix this for yourself.

You can go back to having 11.9 WHQL installed for the system, then simply place atioglxx.dll from the 11.10p Rage driver into Rage’s folder. (Wherever rage.exe is located, I don’t have the game.)

Or if you just want to fix 1 or 2 things while keeping the 11.10 preview installed for the system, just put atioglxx.dll from 11.9 into the game or application folder of what you want to fix. Java based games like Minecraft or Spiral Knights actually run java.exe, so you will put the dll into Java’s ‘bin’ folder instead.

I put in a couple other OpenGL driver files, atigktxx.dll and atiglpxx.dll, just in case if using the single atioglxx.dll alone did not work.

By the way, these are 32-bit dlls for 32-bit games/apps/Java. As for issues in Rage itself, I can’t do any tests since I don’t have the game. (Which would be useful since I’m a 4870×2 and I hear 4 series has the most problems at the moment.)

23 Comments on “Fix For Rage Drivers Crashing Other OpenGL Games Or Applications”

@Scott, maybe just switch back to 11.9 whql for the whole system
you’re trying to get minecraft working? open the game & in taskmanager find out exactly where your java.exe is located, then place the 11.9 ogl dll in that folder

3Scott said at 3:02 pm on October 12th, 2011:

@kn00tcn Apparently this doesn’t work with 64bit Java? Maybe I’m missing something? I got it to work with 32bit but then Minecraft didn’t like the 32bit version for some reason.

4Scott said at 4:25 pm on October 12th, 2011:

I tried to add the atig6pxx.ddl, atig6txx.dll, and the atio6axx.dll. and got this form minecraft:

Bad video card drivers!
———————–

Minecraft was unable to start because it failed to find an accelerated OpenGL mode.
This can usually be fixed by updating the video card drivers.

org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Pixel format not accelerated
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.nChoosePixelFormat(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.choosePixelFormat(WindowsPeerInfo.java:52)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsDisplay.createWindow(WindowsDisplay.java:185)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.createWindow(Display.java:311)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:856)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:784)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:765)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.a(SourceFile:233)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(SourceFile:629)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
— END ERROR REPORT 37e5cb31 ———-

@Rage, ‘or something’? well what exactly is the message & which drivers are you on

18Name said at 7:53 pm on November 1st, 2011:

Thanks, it works for me.

Installed 11.10 official, put V3 from this site into RAGE folder and now RAGE is not blue anymore.

Win7 x64

19MerolaC said at 6:11 pm on November 20th, 2011:

Thanks kn00tcn!

20hey im nt able to start the rage game..! wat to do said at 5:12 pm on December 28th, 2011:

i hv alerdy istalled the game bt where m trying to open it it shows one dialouge box n som kind of programin is written & der r two options like (copy & clear ) & quit ….! i tried them all.. but nothig works , to start the game…& then it shows the box with RAGE HAS STOPPED WORKING….! plz giv me a perfect solution..! i hv cum here with lots of hope plz…!